Agenda
Monday 16 March
This session will examine what effective, innovation-friendly regulation looks like, and how regulators and industry can collaborate to shape it together. It will examine policymaking in a rapidly evolving landscape of risks, and discuss strategies for building public trust while balancing growth. The conversation will also consider broader challenges facing the technology and innovation sectors.
With this in mind, this session will explore the current digital ID ecosystem in the UK, and how it relates to the opportunities the new Government national digital ID programme wishes to explore. It will also consider the challenges faced in developing a national digital ID, including the delivery of significant government infrastructure projects needed for data sharing. This session will cut through the noise, educate on what is being proposed, and explore how to best communicate this across the population.
Over a year on from the AI Opportunities Action Plan, AI still represents a significant opportunity to our economy and public services if done right, but other countries are moving fast, with scale and ambition. Attention is rightfully shifting from ambition to execution. This session will examine what widespread AI adoption looks like in practice, how organisations and workers are affected, and what government and industry need to do to create the right conditions for responsible deployment. The challenge now is not whether to act, but how to move forward.
This session will consider how the UK can work to create its own regulatory standards for technologies that span borders, and how it can work with its counterparts to ensure cohesion and collaboration across different countries’ approaches. Additionally, the conversation will cover what it means to build out digital resilience in terms of infrastructure, data and regulation and how the UK can work alongside other countries to strengthen its own technology offering.
10am
Panel: Driving Innovation: How do we create the right landscape to support and develop innovative transport and technology solutions? Sponsored by Uber
Panel: Driving Innovation: How do we create the right landscape to support and develop innovative transport and technology solutions? Sponsored by Uber
Panel
Regulators and policymakers working across the technology sector often face the delicate challenge of having to pre-emptively regulate to protect citizens ahead of technologies and use cases being fully understood and developed. Industry is clear that the UK needs regulation that protects citizens and markets, but also actively fosters innovation.This session will examine what effective, innovation-friendly regulation looks like, and how regulators and industry can collaborate to shape it together. It will examine policymaking in a rapidly evolving landscape of risks, and discuss strategies for building public trust while balancing growth. The conversation will also consider broader challenges facing the technology and innovation sectors.
Speakers
Dr Siddartha Khastgir
Claire Wren
Sue Daley OBE
Dr Sarah Gates
Ed Davison
10.45am
In Conversation with Zia Yusuf, Spokesperson for Home Affairs, Reform UK
11.30am
Panel:The digital solution: How can digital ID address many of the challenges the UK faces, and how do we get it right? Sponsored by Yoti
Panel:The digital solution: How can digital ID address many of the challenges the UK faces, and how do we get it right? Sponsored by Yoti
Panel
The Government has ambitions to create a universal digital ID system across the public sector. But this is not the only ambition that the UK has around digital ID: There already exists a thriving private sector delivering use cases across financial services, online retail and more, and that are continuing to drive innovation across the economy.With this in mind, this session will explore the current digital ID ecosystem in the UK, and how it relates to the opportunities the new Government national digital ID programme wishes to explore. It will also consider the challenges faced in developing a national digital ID, including the delivery of significant government infrastructure projects needed for data sharing. This session will cut through the noise, educate on what is being proposed, and explore how to best communicate this across the population.
Speakers
Liz Brandt
Laura Foster
Robin Tombs
Jack Cole
Victoria Collins MP
1.45pm
In Conversation with Kate Forbes MSP, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
2pm
Panel: Societal disruption: How can the UK look to create the right climate for responsible AI adoption? Sponsored by Salesforce
Panel: Societal disruption: How can the UK look to create the right climate for responsible AI adoption? Sponsored by Salesforce
Panel
AI presents a major opportunity for the UK, but it also brings real risks and real costs if deployed without sufficient oversight, clarity or accountability. These issues are no longer theoretical. At the same time, focusing only on risk risks missing the point: the UK needs a credible, honest account of what AI can deliver for productivity, growth and better outcomes across the economy and society, alongside a clear-eyed view of the trade-offs involved.Over a year on from the AI Opportunities Action Plan, AI still represents a significant opportunity to our economy and public services if done right, but other countries are moving fast, with scale and ambition. Attention is rightfully shifting from ambition to execution. This session will examine what widespread AI adoption looks like in practice, how organisations and workers are affected, and what government and industry need to do to create the right conditions for responsible deployment. The challenge now is not whether to act, but how to move forward.
Speakers
Theo Blackwell
Anna Thomas MBE
Kizzy Price
Nimmi Patel
Simon Collinson
3.15pm
Panel: World-leading: How can the UK create an internationally thriving technology sector in the age of digital sovereignty?
Panel: World-leading: How can the UK create an internationally thriving technology sector in the age of digital sovereignty?
Panel
By its nature, the technology sector is one of the most interdependent sectors globally with businesses and operations spanning different borders and jurisdictions. However, in an age of even more uncertainty – both in terms of technology developments but also geopolitically – there has been a wider conversation playing out about what truly resilient economies look like and how they should be developed within countries.This session will consider how the UK can work to create its own regulatory standards for technologies that span borders, and how it can work with its counterparts to ensure cohesion and collaboration across different countries’ approaches. Additionally, the conversation will cover what it means to build out digital resilience in terms of infrastructure, data and regulation and how the UK can work alongside other countries to strengthen its own technology offering.
Speakers
Doniya Soni-Clark
Alvaro Garcia Delgado
Rahul Tyagi
Matthew Houlihan
4pm
In Conversation with Dr Ben Spencer MP, Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology
